Tintri by DDN Assigned Patent

Tintri by DDN, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,642,690) developed by Tian, Lei, Sunnyvale, CA, Dayal, Shobhit, San Francisco, CA, and Gud, Amit, San Jose, CA, for a “policy-driven raid rebuild.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for policy-driven RAID rebuild includes an interface to a group of devices each having stripe units. At least one of the devices is a spare device available to be used in the event of a failure of a device in the group of devices. The system further includes a processor coupled to the interface and configured to determine, based at least in part on an ordering criteria, an order in which to reconstruct stripe units to rebuild a failed device in the group of devices. The processor is further configured to rebuild the failed device including by reconstructing stripe units in the determined order using the spare device to overwrite stripe units as needed.”

The patent application was filed on December 20, 2017 (15/848,330).